Three military workers who were taken to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary after coming into contact with an Ebola patient have now been cleared after showing no signs of the disease.

All three have now passed the 21-day monitoring period which saw them flown to the Tyneside hospital from Sierra Leone last month.

The health care workers were brought to the city after coming into direct contact with colleagues who later tested positive for the condition.

One had been working in the same facility as a US healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola, while the other two had contact with Cpl Anna Cross who was also diagnosed with the condition.

The 25-year-old from Cambridge has since been discharged from the Royal Free hospital in London.

A spokeswoman for Public Health England today confirmed the three cases had now successfully undergone their monitoring period.

Corporal Anna Cross, 25, during a press conference at London's Royal Free Hospital where she has been discharged, after being successfully treated for Ebola (Image: Philip Toscano/PA Wire)

More than 10,000 have died and at least 24,000 have been infected since the epidemic broke out in Guinea in December 2013.

The North East hospital is one of just four nationwide capable of dealing with an Ebola outbreak and its infectious diseases unit has been on standby since last year to deal with any cases of the disease.

Although none of the cases treated at the RVI had Ebola, they were required, under UK legislation, to remain under the care of specialist doctors until the 21 day incubation period of the disease has passed.

It emerged today that a A Scottish man is being tested for Ebola after returning from west Africa, but health officials said it was “very unlikely” he would have the virus.

The man was admitted to a hospital in Glasgow in the early hours after showing possible symptoms of the virus.

Schools have also reopened across Sierra Leone nine months after they were closed because of the outbreak.

The government hopes that the studying time lost by the country’s 1.8 million children can still be made up.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) says that the reopening of Sierra Leone’s schools marks “a major step in the normalisation of life”.

New cases of Ebola continue to be reported in Sierra Leone but numbers are declining.